Victims don’t have to wait until they get a call from the police or bank to discover they have been defrauded by a person or organisation they purported to be. A few minutes spent online using fraud prevention tools to carry out due diligence can help you verify information about people, addresses and companies before you do business with them.
Begin searching:
- Persons Subject to Sanctions in the UK
- VAT number verification
- Corruption Perceptions Index by Country
- International Company Search database
- Linkedin network
- Companies House
- ICIJ’s Database of leaked offshore accounts
- Global Legal Entity Identifier Search (GLEIF)
- HM Land Registry
- Private Eye Registry
- Authorised Financial Services firms
- Unauthorised Financial Services Firms Register
- Financial Conduct Authority fines imposed
- Insolvency Service
- Individual Insolvency Register
- Insolvency Register Scotland
- Insolvency Register Northern Ireland
- Check a law firm is regulated
- Check a Solicitors Record.
- Register of Medical Practitioners
- Register of Nurses and Midwives
- Register of Dentists
- Accountant misdescribers
- Free Register of UK Births, Marriages and Deaths
- HMRC advice on how to spot and avoid VAT scams
- D&B D‑U‑N‑S® Number Lookup
- Higher Education Degree Datacheck
